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Welcome to our Policy series on the 2025 Canada G7, held in Kananaskis, Alberta, June 15-17. Donald Trump’s second term has re-focused global policy energy toward economic urgencies, a development that helped propel former central banker Mark Carney to victory in Canada’s recent election and which now dominates multilateral diplomacy. We thank our exceptional Policy writers for their excellent pieces on the policy, diplomacy, economics, politics and geopolitics of the 2025 G7.

Beginning with our most recent, post-Kananaskis G7 pieces:

Among the policy agreements that emerged from Kananaskis is the G7 Leaders’ Statement on AI for Prosperity, underscoring a shared commitment to advance “secure, trustworthy, and human-centric AI”. We have a must-read piece from cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks’ Chief Security Intelligence Officer Wendi Whitmore and Regional Vice President Heather Black. “In order to defend against sophisticated global cyber threats,” write Whitmore and Black, “we must equip public and private sector leaders with the frameworks, visibility, and confidence they need to adopt AI in a more secure and responsible way.” Here are Wendi Whitmore and Heather Black with From Risk to Readiness: A Secure Path Forward for AI Adoption in Government.

While Donald Trump’s early exit from Kananaskis was unexpected, it contained more catastrophe aversion than catastrophe, writes Policy Editor Lisa Van Dusen. “Trump’s pre-finale exit was the best possible outcome for the G7,” writes Van Dusen, “and Carney’s job was securing the best possible outcome for the G7 as a political, geopolitical and existential imperative.” Here’s Lisa Van Dusen with Kananaskis, Carney, and the Future of the G7.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s G7 closing news conference

Our pre-G7 pieces:

On June 15th, as world leaders were making their way to Kananaskis, Policy contributor and Montreal Institute for Global Security Director Kyle Matthews filed an excellent piece from the train to Munich following the GLOBSEC forum in Prague. “The Kananaskis G7 must address the prospect that the fragmentation Trump has provoked and rationalized — in defence, in trade, in global governance — is not a permanent condition but a transitional one,” writes Matthews. “The question is: what will follow it?” Here’s Kyle Matthews with Fighting Fragmentation: Canada’s Strategic Role at the G7.

From Jeremy Kinsman, Policy‘s Canada and the World columnist and a former career diplomat who served as ambassador to Russia, to the EU and to Italy, and as high commissioner to the UK, an excellent big-picture piece. “Canadian public opinion and politics have rightly been focusing on the threat Trump has posed to Canada’s sovereignty and security,” writes Kinsman in a piece on the G7 and Canadian values. “But Trump’s autocratic and anti-globalist worldview also undermines Canada’s international belief system.” Here’s Jeremy Kinsman with ‘Who is My Neighbour?’ Kananaskis and the Clash of Worldviews. And, Jeremy’s take on the May 7th Carney-Trump White House bilateral as a prelude to the G7, Can Carney’s Trump Whispering Save the Upcoming G7?

Senator Peter Boehm has served as Canadian Sherpa for six G7s, including the 2018 Charlevoix G7 that delivered such a colourful warning to the world about Donald Trump’s approach to rules-based multilateralism. In the latest of our series of Policy G7 Q&As, Senator Boehm addressed the Bobby McFerrin factor, pondered the known unknowns and advised against a final communiqué at Kananaskis, for obvious reasons. Here’s our Policy Q&A: Former Sherpa Peter Boehm on the Kananaskis G7. From January, the excellent background brief, Policy Q&A: Former G7 Sherpa Sen. Peter Boehm on Trump, Charlevoix and Bracing for Kananaskis. And, one of our most-read pieces from 2024, Peter Boehm’s review of the first-ever G7 comedy-horror film, here’s ‘Rumours’ as a Multilateral Morality Tale: Sherpas Really do Matter, and Canada Saves the Day.

Former career diplomat and host of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute‘s Global Exchange podcast Colin Robertson filed the perfect crossover piece for our G7 and NATO pre-summit packages. “Carney hosts the G7 in Kananaskis, Alberta, on June 15-17, then meets with European Union leaders in Brussels on June 23, before heading to the Hague for the NATO Summit June 24-25,” writes Colin. “All three summits will test his chops as a diplomat and his declaration that ‘Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of like-minded countries who share our values’.” Here’s Colin Robertson with Canada Needs More World: Mark Carney’s Summitry Launch.

As a sharp observer of Donald Trump’s tariff war, international trade lawyer and veteran trade policy sage Lawrence Herman explored the likelihood of a Kananaskis Trump combustion that could imperil the group’s future. “The situation is doubly tricky for Mr. Carney because of parallel discussions he’s been having with Trump on a new Canada-US economic and security arrangement,” writes Herman. Here’s Lawrence Herman with Can the G7 Survive Donald Trump?

With this G7 was imbued with all the anticipatory anxiety that surrounds any Trumpian diplomacy exercise, Policy Editor Lisa Van Dusen explored the ways in which it was unprecedented. “For instance,” writes Van Dusen, “there has never been a G7 at which one of the leaders has publicly declared his intention to unilaterally annex the host country and — check against day-of — declined to retract that threat before the class photo.” Here’s Lisa Van Dusen with All the G7s Kananaskis Will Not be Like.

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